Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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212 strictly classified "racial inventory" of the Czech nation, which practically until the end of the war took place "back door" only on the basis of confidential directives of the Office for Racial and Settlement Affairs. According to R.Heydrich, the Czechs were not to be unnecessarily concerned because the "final solution" of their questions had not yet arrived.[10) Likewise, by expropriating themselves under the pretext of establishing military spaces discreetly, without explicit legislation, the land was preparing for future German settlers and building model German economies. It can therefore be concluded that the law was an important tool for the Nazis in their policies in controlling the conquered nations, but only until the moment they became in the way of this policy. This was also true for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It is the readiness of Nazis and similar regimes at any time to discard or circumvent the right created by them that relativizes even the postwar efforts of democratic lawyers to bring about a concept of law that would prevent its abuse in the future. While the formulation of the priority of natural law may be of importance to legislative techniques, how it deals with the wrong ex post, but no natural legal principle is capable of preventing the state or occupation from adopting and applying the wrong according to its favour, or resorting to direct violence without it. In addition, the very content of the natural legal standards, with the exception of the right to life and human dignity, is not settled and can be interpreted differently. In fact, even the Nazis, in the beginnings of the grasp of power in the gaps in the legislation, called for a positive statement of their order. national feeling (Volksempfinden) and justice in the sense of the nationalist socialist world view, as a natural right of the Germans. (11) The guarantee that a positive right does not turn against the natural interests of people lies therefore primarily in the plane of politics and a functioning democratic environment. Immunity to the recurrences of the tragic past also contributes to the constant revival of historical memory and consistent rejection of opinions that do not see or do not want to see the causal link between the monstrous Nazi ideology and the evil that it created, and even claim that Czechoslovakia, as the state failed, was a "tragic error" ((12)